Climate Prep

Jojo Binay, the newly elected Vice President of the Philippines, spoke at the close of the Asian Development Bank’s Asia Clean Energy Forum (ACEF) this past week. Apart from being his first major policy speech, his remarks at the energy-focused event are noteworthy in that they focused heavily on adaptation.
“The unique circumstances of the Philippines [...]

A recent UN policy brief discusses why water-related climate change adaptation is critical for achieving sustainable development around the world. As significant water shortages already exist, water is the medium through which climate impacts are going to be felt most immediately and most severely by many people. “Adaptation to climate change is urgent. Water plays a pivotal role [...]

Here’s a repost from Nick Sundt’s WWF Climate Blog, recounting the recent Adaptation Summit in Washington, published on Mon, 06/07/2010.
The Administration of President Barack Obama took an important step toward national climate change preparedness when it convened on 25-27 May 2010 a National Climate Adaptation Summit in Washington, DC. The stated purpose of the meeting was to “to [...]

Hammad Naqi Khan is Director of Programs at WWF – Pakistan and an expert on field-based environmental and water resource management projects. We caught up with Hammad during a recent conference in Washington, where he told us how WWF – Pakistan is working to prepare government and local communities to face the challenges of climate change.
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Another insightful article from The Climate Desk, this time at Wired.com. While federal level adaptation planning for the U.S. is still in development, states like California have gone ahead and published their own state adaptation strategies.  “By the mid-2000s, when the rest of the country was waking up to the challenge of global warming, California [...]

by Irene Lucius, WWF-DCP
This story is part of a series on adaptation in the Danube-Carpathian region.
Compared to other river systems such as the Ganges river in south Asia, the Danube basin  is not likely to be dramatically affected by climate change. Nevertheless, some parts of the river basin will probably suffer from more droughts. Floods are already [...]

by John Matthews, WWF-US
The COP is finally over, and I’ve had about 36 hours to begin to absorb its truths and promises. Written so soon after the negotiations have ended, I have no doubt my reflections will achieve, at best, a facile and tenuous draft of history (or a poor excuse for journalism). But [...]

By John Matthews, WWF-US  
My interest in knitting probably marks me as one of the more visibly peculiar members of the WWF delegation to the COP, but knitting is a great asset in a high-stress setting. Some of the oldest knitting in the world was found in bogs in this part of northern Europe — perhaps [...]

by John Matthews, WWF-US
A week of prelude is over. The real work has begun in Copenhagen.

Last week was intense, fast-paced, and frantic. Most people here are profoundly exhausted. But we’re at the hinge now. Negotiation teams are shifting from delaying and positioning to taking firm and often oppositional stands. More senior level staff are [...]

From WWF International
The world’s wealthy nations have a long way to go on the key negotiating element of climate change adaptation at Copenhagen, WWF warned today “climate change adaptation mechanisms and measures and especially finance must be a key part of any successful deal reached at Copenhagen, but it is an issue starved of attention, [...]